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1969140944986Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co 1969. First edition. First edition. 312 8 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spinea few stains to edges pages toned with age nice shape overall. Holloway House Publishing Co unknown
1971140937975Los Angeles: Holloway House 1971. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Stated "First Printing 1971" on copyright page. 248 7 ads pp. Wraps. About Very Good with creased spine a little foxing to prelims and edges pen scribble to verso of rear cover back cover corner crease. A nonfiction collection by the author of Pimp. Holloway House unknown books
196747922Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing. Fair. 1967. Softcover. Regular shelf wear; Scuffing; Bumping and chipping to edges and corners; Creasing on spine; Slight yellowing consistent with age ; 317 pages . Holloway House Publishing paperback
1996DADAX0870679759Brand: Holloway House 1996-04-01. mass_market. New. 4.25x1.00x7.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Holloway House unknown
1969204301969. Beck Robert writing as Iceberg Slim Mama Black Widow and The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim 1969 and 1971 brings together two Holloway House paperbacks central to African American urban literature street fiction Black pulp publishing and queer representation. Beck born Robert Lee Maupin and later known as Iceberg Slim became a major figure in postwar Black popular literature after Pimp: The Story of My Life appeared in 1967; his later books included fiction autobiography essays and social commentary rooted in the language and violence of the urban underworld. Mama Black Widow is especially significant for LGBTQ history because it centers Otis Tilson a Black queer character whose life is shaped by Southern racism Northern migration poverty family collapse and sexual violence placing Black queer experience within the same urban and racial worlds that made Iceberg Slim's work influential in African American literary and popular culture.<br /> <br /> The archive consists of two first edition paperback books published by Holloway House Publishing Co. in Los Angeles each approximately 300 pages and measuring about 4.25 x 7 inches. 1 Beck Robert. Mama Black Widow. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1969. First edition paperback. The novel follows Otis Tilson and his family from the racial violence and economic restriction of the South into Chicago's urban underworld where poverty prostitution crime and family trauma structure the narrative; later descriptions of the book identify Otis as a Black homosexual character in conflict with pimps police and the racial order around him. 2 Beck Robert. The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1971. First edition paperback. Collection of autobiographical and reflective essays in which Beck addresses his life as a pimp drug user prisoner and writer opening with the statement: "I want to say at the outset that I have become ill insane as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was and I am getting better all the time."<br /> <br /> Together the books document the cultural force of Holloway House's Black urban paperback list and the tensions in Iceberg Slim's authorship: exploitation-market packaging autobiographical authority carceral critique racial anger misogynistic underworld material and a rare Black queer protagonist in late-1960s pulp fiction. Irvine Welsh has described Iceberg Slim as doing for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the homosexual and thief and William Burroughs did for the junkie a comparison that points to Slim's literary importance as an insider narrator of criminalized and stigmatized social worlds. Minor wear from age and spine use; pages yellowed as expected; both books remain intact and clean; overall very good. Focused African American and LGBTQ literary grouping documenting Black pulp fiction queer urban representation and Iceberg Slim's movement from underworld memoir toward broader social and autobiographical critique. unknown
1967WB-PB-500-502<p>Pimp: The Story of My Life is the 1969 autobiography of Robert Beck better known as Iceberg Slim detailing his life as a pimp in Chicago's underworld from the 1930s to the 1960s offering a raw brutal and influential look at street life exploitation and survival becoming a classic in urban literature. The book is known for its unflinching honesty about the sex trade violence and the psychological manipulation used to control women while also exploring the societal constraints that led him to this life.</p> Halloway House paperback
1969EB-PB-07-06199<p>Mass market paperback. 13th Printing. Marker letter 'B' on top and bottom edge of textblock wraps darkened and slightly rubbed else about very good with a flat uncreased spine.</p> Holloway House Publishing paperback
19677739Los Angeles CA: Holloway House Publishing Co 1967. First Printing. Paperback 317 pages. Very Good. First Printing. Rare. Foxing to front and back covers text block and inner covers both front and back. Age wear to text block. Light soiling to text block. Creasing to front and back covers. Holloway House Publishing Co paperback
1967606434Los Angeles California: Holloway House Publishing 1967. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. A chip on the spine foot creasing and toning thus very good. Author's first book. Holloway House Publishing unknown
1969140941588Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint. Signed an inscribed to a former owner inside the front cover by Iceberg Slim. Bound in publisher's white wraps printed in red black and blue. Very Good with creasing and light lean to spine light creases and light browning to cover and toning to pages. Robert Beck better known as Iceberg Slim was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership. Two of his novels including this one were adapted into films. Books signed by Beck are quite scarce. Holloway House unknown
1969140941588Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint. Signed an inscribed to a former owner inside the front cover by Iceberg Slim. Bound in publisher's white wraps printed in red black and blue. Very Good with creasing and light lean to spine light creases and light browning to cover and toning to pages. Robert Beck better known as Iceberg Slim was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership. Two of his novels including this one were adapted into films. Books signed by Beck are quite scarce. Holloway House unknown books
